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...perspective, basing his movie on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip. And if you can't wait for the December opening of Heaven and Earth for a Vietnamese take on the ravages of war, scout around now for From Hollywood to Hanoi, a singeing documentary journey on film by Tiana Thi Tranh...
...person could symbolize Asian Americans, it might be Tiana Thi Tranh Nga. She was born in Vietnam in the '50s. Her uncle was a defense minister in the Thieu government; her father served as press minister and left for California in 1966. Teenage Tiana became an American: "In school, when kids said they hated the gooks, I did too. They were killing our guys." She became an actress and fitness teacher (Karatecize with Tiana). Then she decided to visit Vietnam. From Hollywood to Hanoi, a record of her trip, offers an engrossing take on the images and memories that Americans...
...President in 1976; it would kill her budding career as a radio and TV advocate of women's rights. After 40 years in Washington, Miss Emily, wife of a retiring Senate chairman, is terrified at having to return to a home she no longer knows. Reporter Tiana Briggs, who turned her society column into solid news, aches for the son she lost in a broken marriage and laments the destructiveness of reporters in post-Watergate Washington. Alice Ann Nordahl. the normally subdued wife of a Senator, blossoms into a confident campaigner when he runs for President, but weeps over...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Margarete Bäumer and Ursula Richter, sopranos; Tiana Lemnitz, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Böhme, bass; chorus of the Dresden State Opera, the Saxonian State Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe conducting; Urania Records, sides LP). Soprano Bäumer (The Marschallin) has an unpleasant tremolo and Böhme (Ochs) is too growly and guttural; otherwise a middling-good performance. Recording: good...
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...